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According to The Block, Josh Stark, a key figure at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), announced his resignation after five years and will officially step down at the end of the month. Stark joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, initially working in the special projects team, and later rose to leadership, collaborating with EF Chair Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, and co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Bastian Aue.He is one of the most prominent members of the foundation's external image and has led several significant advancements in Ethereum, including the "The Merge" upgrade that transitioned from proof of work to proof of stake, as well as subsequent upgrades like Dencun, Fusaka, and Pectra. During last year's leadership adjustments at the foundation, he was appointed as the "co-manager" of the EF board and recently took on the role of co-chair of the "trillion-dollar security" initiative.Last month, Stark co-authored a strategic blog post on Ethereum with Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma, outlining Ethereum's latest scaling direction and its relationship with the Layer 2 ecosystem. Stark stated, "I haven't planned for the future yet; I just want to take a good rest and spend time with family and friends." This resignation occurs against the backdrop of ongoing changes at the Ethereum Foundation.Last year, the foundation underwent significant leadership adjustments, refocusing its strategic priorities on scaling the Ethereum mainnet and core cypherpunk values; Tomasz K. Stańczak also resigned from his co-executive director position at the end of February this year, having served for less than a year. On the same day, Trent Van Epps also announced his departure from EF to fully dedicate himself to Protocol Guild, the independent funding organization for Ethereum core developers that he founded.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that its jointly initiated ETH Rangers project has completed a 6-month operation. The project aims to fund independent researchers who contribute to public safety for the Ethereum ecosystem. Seventeen grantees have achieved multiple results in vulnerability research, security tool development, threat intelligence, and incident response, including: recovering or freezing over $5.8 million, reporting or documenting over 785 vulnerabilities and client issues, identifying about 100 attackers, providing security education content covering over 209,000 users, and handling over 36 security incidents.In addition, the project has also encouraged over 800 teams to participate in security challenges, produced over 80 technical sharing and training sessions, and developed or improved more than 7 open-source security tools. The Ethereum Foundation stated that the related results indicate that decentralized networks require "decentralized defense" and effectively enhance the overall security and resilience of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Charles Schwab officially announced the launch of Schwab Crypto™ spot cryptocurrency trading services, which will be gradually opened to retail customers in the coming weeks.The service supports direct trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and provides educational content and professional customer support, while integrating Charles Schwab's existing investment, trading, wealth management, and banking service systems.

Drift announced on its official website that the Drift Protocol has received support from Tether and other partners, with Tether planning to invest $127.5 million and other partners planning to invest $20 million to jointly support user recovery.The support plan includes a $100 million revenue-linked credit line, ecosystem grants, and loans provided to market makers. Drift will establish a dedicated user recovery pool aimed at gradually addressing the $295 million in unpaid user losses as trading revenue grows. Additionally, Drift will issue independent recovery tokens to affected users, which represent a claim on the recovery pool and are transferable. Drift is currently working on the protocol restart, having hired Ottersec and Asymmetric for auditing, and will migrate the settlement layer from USDC to USDT. The previous attack resulted in approximately $295 million worth of assets being stolen, while the insurance fund assets were unaffected.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Tether purchased 951.35 BTC (worth 70.47 million USD) from Bitfinex. They now hold 97,204 BTC (worth 7.28 billion USD).

The ETH/BTC exchange rate has risen to a 10-week high, with Ethereum's recent performance outperforming Bitcoin. This ratio has broken through the resistance level of a downward trend line since 2025 and is above the 50-day and 100-day exponential moving averages.XWIN Research points out that the employee statement released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission explains that DeFi front-end and wallet interfaces do not need to register as broker-dealers under conditions such as non-custodial and neutral fee structures, which has boosted Ethereum's strength. On-chain data shows an upward trend in active addresses, and the Coinbase premium gap is also improving, indicating that U.S. institutional demand is recovering.Enterprise-level accumulation is accelerating, with Bitmine increasing its holdings by 279,000 ETH in the past 30 days, currently holding 4.87 million ETH, accounting for over 4% of the circulating supply. In the futures market, global ETH open interest has reached $16.37 billion, with the funding rate still negative, indicating that shorts are dominant. However, open interest on Binance has increased by 10.47% to $6.04 billion, and the funding rate has turned positive, creating an extreme imbalance between global shorts and Binance longs.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 15) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $67.847 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a net inflow of $31.5064 million, bringing the historical total net inflow of ETHA to $11.769 billion.The second was the Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a net inflow of $24.7859 million, bringing the historical total net inflow of ETH to $1.883 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $13.794 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market cap as a percentage of Ethereum's total market cap) of 4.84%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.798 billion.

Trent.eth, a member of the Ethereum Foundation, posted on the X platform stating that he is no longer serving at EF as of last Friday. He expressed respect for the partnership with the team over the past five years in network upgrades and funding support work.Trent Van Epps also stated that he will continue to participate in the Protocol Guild and work related to the political economy of Ethereum as long as funding allows.

The newly established political action committee in the crypto industry, Fellowship PAC, has raised approximately $11 million, with $10 million coming from Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchorage Digital. It has spent about $3 million on political advertising, with this portion of the expenses paid to Nxum Group, which was co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines.The PAC primarily supports Republican candidates and invests funds in congressional and state-level elections. Although the organization has ties to Tether executives, its main funding sources are financial institutions, and it is currently unclear whether Tether can directly participate in related political donations.

According to CoinDesk, on-chain data shows that Tether recently transferred 951 BTC to its Bitcoin reserve address, worth approximately $70 million at the time, bringing its total holdings to 97,141 BTC, valued at about $7.16 billion.The related address is labeled as "Tether: BTC Reserve" and matches the address previously confirmed by Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino. This increase continues Tether's allocation strategy implemented since 2023, which involves investing up to 15% of realized operating profits into Bitcoin.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Bitcoin reserve address of USDT issuer Tether withdrew 951 BTC ($70.47 million) from Bitfinex 15 minutes ago. This should be the BTC they purchased in the first quarter of this year. The BTC stored in this wallet was bought with 15% of the company's profits since 2023, and they often withdraw the BTC purchased in the previous quarter from Bitfinex a few days after each quarter ends.Currently, Tether's Bitcoin reserve address holds 97,141 BTC ($7.2 billion), making it the fifth largest BTC wallet. Based on the price when they withdrew from Bitfinex, the average purchase price of these BTC is approximately $51,312, currently yielding a profit of $2.175 billion.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net inflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 4,566 BTC, the net inflow of Ethereum ETFs is 23,405 ETH, and the net inflow of Solana ETFs is 13,662 SOL.

According to Santiment monitoring, small retail traders are actively selling their holdings of Ethereum (ETH), with wallets holding 0.01 ETH or less having reduced their holdings by a total of 1,791 ETH (approximately 4.16 million USD) in the past two days. The market generally views the 17% increase since March 29 as a "Bull Trap," and this sentiment has actually strengthened the likelihood of a continued bullish momentum.

According to market news, the Ethereum to Bitcoin price ratio (ETH/BTC) has rebounded to 0.0313, reaching a three-month high, indicating an overall recovery in the cryptocurrency market.The number of new users on the Ethereum network has increased by 82% year-on-year, reaching 284,000, and the trading volume has risen to 200.4 million transactions. The supply of stablecoins has surpassed $180 billion, accounting for about 60% of the global market. Analysts point out that if the ETH/BTC ratio closes above 0.035 on a weekly basis, it will indicate a continued inflow of funds into Ethereum and high-risk assets. Currently, the ETH price is still down over 50% from its 52-week high. Bitcoin's price remains above $74,000, and the total inflow into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs has exceeded $56 billion, providing long-term support for the market.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 14) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $53.0329 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $38.0593 million. Currently, FETH's historical total net inflow has reached $2.271 billion.Following that is Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $10.4902 million. Currently, ETHA's historical total net inflow has reached $11.737 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $13.393 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 4.79%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.730 billion.

The Ethereum liquid re-staking protocol Ether.fi announced that it will provide a total value of $3 billion worth of Ethereum as "validator liquidity" to the ETHGas market over the next three years, funded by the 2.8 million staked Ethereum it manages.ETHGas is a futures market for Ethereum block space that allows for the advance purchase of block space to ensure transaction execution. This initiative aims to enhance validator earnings by helping validators capture more maximum extractable value (MEV) through the sale of block space commitments, resulting in higher and more predictable returns. ETHGas has received institutional investments from firms like Polychain Capital and has launched the governance token GWEI, which currently has a market capitalization of approximately $120 million.Ether.fi's native token ETHFI has a market capitalization of about $332 million. This move will provide developers and enterprises with more predictable transaction costs and execution times, promoting the development of Ethereum as a global institutional capital settlement layer.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net outflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 3,539 BTC, the net outflow of Ethereum ETFs is 780 ETH, and the net inflow of Solana ETFs is 2,469 SOL.

According to official news, the Ethereum Foundation has launched the Ethereum Audit Subsidy Program, a collaborative project initiated with audit service providers, aimed at subsidizing the costs of security audits for Ethereum developers.Security audits are industry best practices, but they can be expensive. The goal of this subsidy program is to make audits more affordable, thereby enhancing the security of the entire Ethereum ecosystem. Under the Ethereum Foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Program," this project collaborates with organizations such as Areta, Nethermind, and Chainlink Labs to review applications, helping developers building CROPS and new use cases on Ethereum to obtain more affordable audit services.

According to official news, Tether has announced the launch of tether.wallet, a self-custody digital wallet that puts Tether's global financial infrastructure directly in the hands of users.With the launch of tether.wallet, this funding distribution network is now open directly to end users for the first time. This release marks a further extension of Tether's efforts in building an open financial system and expands its capabilities into products for everyday use.